But no single agency overspent its approved budget more than the Department of Children, Youth and Families which is headed for a $13.2-million deficit. Next in line is the agency that runs the state prison, which is running a total of $7.8 million in the red.

And they are not alone.

The newly released report says: “There are several agencies forecasting deficits in FY 2015, as of their first quarter reports. These include the Departments of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals; Human Services; Children, Youth and Families; Corrections; Public Safety; and the Office of Health and Human Services.

“The Budget Office is working closely with these agencies to develop corrective action plans to resolve deficits and to identify savings in current year spending plans in other agencies to offset any additional funding needs,” the report says.

When coupled with last week’s mixed-news, revenue-and-caseload forecast, the new report translates into a larger than previously anticipated deficit in the current budget year that runs from July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015.

Based on current trends, the state is now headed for a $34.5-million year-end deficit, up from the previous $21.7-million projection.

The numbers are contained in a report that the state’s budget officer, Thomas Mullaney, produced for lameduck Governor Chafee.

The law requires the budget officer “to project on a quarterly basis the anticipated year-end balance assuming current trends continue and the typical cyclical expenditure patterns prevail over the course of the year.”

The report contains some good news: a slight uptick in anticipated state revenues.

It also contains some assumptions, among them: that the unions representing state troopers and correctional officers win retroactive raises comparable to those won by most other state workers in 2014.

But it also reflects some overly optimistic assumptions by the legislature’s budget writers about the size of the prison population, and the ease with which state agencies would “absorb” the unbudgeted, back-to-back raises workers won from the Chafee administration.

For example: “The Attorney General is projecting a deficit of $1.9 million, primarily comprised of additional expenses for the cost of living adjustment provided to state employees that could not be offset with additional turnover savings.”

The Department of Environmental Management cited these unbudgeted raises and the impact of the promised $8 to $9-an-hour minimum wage hike in January on its seasonal employees as reasons for its own $1.6-million projected deficit.

The projected Department of Corrections deficit is at least $7.8 million, “primarily due to the opening of additional housing modules to accommodate an increase in the inmate population, which results in additional overtime expenses.”

As the spending report explains: “The enacted budget was predicated on an average inmate population of 3,192 for FY 2015. The department’s first-quarter report estimates the average population will be 3,214 for this fiscal year.

But medical assistance accounts for a much bigger chunk of the projected deficit, and not as a result of any eligibility or rate changes, Mullaney said in an email.

“The increases are due to new drugs for Hepatitis C treatment; higher utilization of long-term care and lower than anticipated enrollment in Rhody Health Options managed-care program, which results in higher costs in long-term care and in hospitals fee-for-service programs. Also, those remaining in traditional long-term care are costing more due to the severity of their conditions.

“In other words, those who have migrated out of long-term care facilities are the ones who have less severe illness and those remaining are in worse condition and thus cost more,” Mullaney said.

The House Finance Committee has called an off-session hearing for Thursday, to consider the spending trends and what they bode in a year when lawmakers approved an $8.8-billion state and federally financed budget, that includes $3,445,169,968 in state dollars.

On the flip side: the budget office is projecting savings in borrowing costs of $20.4 million, in part as a result of “a delay in the issuance of new debt for the Historic Structures Tax Credit program,” and the issuance of new and refunded debt at lower than anticipated interest rates.

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